Motivational Quotes

Life

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

10.

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

11.

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

12.

Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

13.

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

14.

In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

15.

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

16.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

17.

In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

18.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

19.

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

20.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

21.

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

22.

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

23.

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

24.

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

25.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

26.

Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

27.

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

28.

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

29.

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

30.

Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

31.

Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

32.

The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

33.

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

34.

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

35.

Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

36.

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

37.

The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

38.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

39.

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

40.

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

41.

We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

42.

But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

43.

The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

44.

First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

45.

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

46.

Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

47.

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

48.

Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

49.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

50.

The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou